IPOB: Paralysing South East Economy Unacceptable – Ifeanyi Ubah

IPOB: Paralysing South East Economy Unacceptable – Ifeanyi Ubah

● Nnewi people defy sit at home order, go about their normal business

By PHC Telegraph

Senator Ifeanyi Ubah representing Anambra South Senatorial District in the Senate says the idea of forcing people to sit at home against their will at the beginning of every new week because of the detention of the acclaimed leader of IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, is completely unacceptable.

Ubah in his reaction accused the masterminds of the sit at home project of gradually destroying the economy of the Eastern region and curtailing the rights and freedom of ordinary citizens.

The Senator’s devastating criticism of the sit at home proclamation put in place by IPOB is coming against the backdrop of efforts by opinion leaders, including State governors in Igboland to end the practice.

Across Igboland, shops and businesses are shutdown every Monday while normal South Eastern Nigerians who enjoy Nigerian citizenship are prohibited from stepping out of their homes by non State actors.

Ubah who spoke virtually on Channels’ Lunchtime Politics broadcast Monday said the people of Nnewi town have resolved not to continue with the Monday sit at home.

The Senator stated that many in the South East are petrified with fear, following the resort to acts of terror and violence visited on them by some persons who own no investments in the region.

Ubah alleged that these persons were engaging in the extortion of money from Igbos in the name of a so – called Biafran struggle.

While people’s livelihood are being adversely affected, the lawmaker noted, the people behind the emasculation of the Igbo nation are getting richer.

He disclosed that the Nnewi people were no longer in the mood to tolerate the bestial intrusion of outsiders in their private lives.

Ubah was of the view that the time has come for the people of the South East to look for better and civilised ways of asking the Nigerian authorities to release the self-acclaimed leader of the Biafran struggle  who is currently in detention.

The Port Harcourt Telegraph reports that Channels TV carried live pictures of Nnewi people all dressed in black who came out Monday to defy the stay at home order.

Recall that Senator Ubah narrowly escaped being killed armed men who ambushed as his convoy passed by a crowded market some months ago.